How to get model’s legs
By Veronica MacDonald
An Accidental Anthropologist
Most people fantasize about running away with the circus. But when it comes down to it, there are very few circus jobs that are really desirable. It’s not the clown that hurls through the ring of fire at top speeds. Nor the trapeze artist that flies without [...]
Children’s Book Reviews by Andrea Dochney of The Oakland Public Library
The Exceptionally, Extraordinarily, Ordinary First Day of School
By: Albert Lorenz
Perfect for any student with a wild, fun imagination, this book recounts a child’s former school to his current school librarian. With time machines, castles and worm lunches, the former school may not be all [...]
“For years the Ramapo Bergen Animal Refuge has been our workplace, our life, our heart and our home away from home, but more importantly it has been the temporary home and sanctuary to hundreds of starved, abandoned, abused, neglected and simply just forgotten animals. Today as we walked through the empty kennel and water drenched [...]
Laura Skandera Trombley. Mark Twain’s Other Woman:
The Hidden Story of His Final Years. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
As reviewed by Ted Odenwald
With the voluminous collection of information regarding Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain’s life, one would hardly expect any mysteries. Yet Professor Laura Skandera Trombley has dedicated sixteen years of research to an issue that had [...]
Maluka, a boutique located in Wyckoff, NJ, got noted this August as the go-to-place in US Weekly magazine. The shop was listed as the place to purchase designs from…
On August 18 at 2:17am, Wyckoff Police responded to Route 208 north near Cedar Hill Avenue after residents of nearby homes reported that they heard a crash. Ptl. Michael DeMaio arrived to find fresh skid marks on the roadway, damage to a guardrail, and vehicle debris. Among the debris left at the scene was a [...]
The federal government’s “Race To The Top” educational reform program has the title for a great reality television show, and New Jersey provided that dramatic ending to a questionable season that involved billions of dollars in prizes.
New Jersey’s Star Ledger is reporting that what appears to be a clerical error on the part of New [...]
Fred Thompson. Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir
of Growing Up and Second Chances. New York:
Crown Forum, 2010
as reviewed by Ted Odenwald
Many fans of TV’s “Law and Order” will recognize Fred Thompson as the senior lawyer with southern roots; followers of politics may recognize him as the former US senator from Tennessee; still others may [...]
On August 10 at 11:14pm, Wyckoff Police responded to 373 Carriage Lane to investigate a report of a loud party. Sgt. Michael Ragucci and Ptl. Brian Zivkoich responded and as they approached the house, individuals began running from the property and warning others of the arrival of the police. The front lights of the home [...]
There’s lots of talk about plans for a new ShopRite at the old A&P site in Wyckoff, NJ…so let’s not talk about that. The planning, protests, meetings, drawings and re-drawings will probably go on for some time. Instead, it may be more interesting to decipher the illustrious heir to the A&P fortune, Huntington Hartford and [...]
